# How to start a Django Project? Django is one of the biggest web development with Python, web framework in the market and the biggest companies, including **Facebook, Google, etc**. have started using Django for it’s backend programming So, here is how you can start your first Django Project Prerequisites: 1. You should have basic knowledge about **Python** and should be well-versed with **Object Oriented programming in Python** 2. Basic frontend knowledge with **HTML, CSS** (You can use css frameworks like bootstrap to make your work easy) 3. That’s pretty much it… So let’s get started If you have come so far, in this blog, you must know Python well. So, since you have python installed, you would have got, PIP which is a python packaging tool, which is an equivalent of NPM if you have used JS **So, first we need to create a directory. For that, go into the terminal and type:** ``` mkdir livecode247 && cd livecode247 ``` Once you have done that, you will be inside, the **livecode247** directory Now, run: ``` pip3 install django ``` This would take some time. After that is done, you would have installed Django on your laptop. However, it is always better to work on a **virtual environment**, so we will make one as follows ``` pip3 install virtualenv virtualenv myenv --python=python3 ``` This would: 1\. Install virtualenv on your device 2\. Create a vitualenv in the current directory, i.e. livecode247 Now, we need to activate this environment ``` source myenv/bin/activate ``` Now, that we have activated the environment, all our changes in here would not affect our device. So, now let us install django in this virtualenv ``` pip3 install django ``` Now, we will start a django project. To start a django project, run: ``` django-admin startproject livecode247 . ``` **DON’T FORGET THE “.” IN THE END OF THE LINE** Now, run: ``` python3 manage.py runserver ``` Now, go to the browser and type [http://127.0.0.1:8000](http://127.0.0.1:8000) Voilà, you have successfully created your first django project